Tribalism 2003

“What do we learn from the Frums and the Coulters? That American values?indeed, that all post-Enlightenment, western-world values?are a very recent overlay, superimposed on much older impulses. They promote ancestral, pre-western thinking. They tell us that our own specific tribe must be right?and that all other tribes must be evil and wrong. These impulses say that those who disagree with our views must disagree out of evil.”